How Boko Haram killed 70 soldiers in Metele
One of the Soldiers who escaped the deadly attack with injuries on a military base in the northern part of Borno State on Monday, said they suffered a heavy casualty due to lack of adequate weapons.
The soldier, who managed to escape the attack alongside other injured troops, said at least 70 soldiers died in the attack while many others sustained serious injuries.
He said the corpses of the slain soldiers were yet to be evacuated days after Boko Haram took advantage of their lack of munitions to deal them a devastating defeat.
The attack happened on Monday evening at Metele village in Guzamala local government area.
It was gathered that large cache of arms, ammunition, and military equipment were carted away by Boko Haram fighters during the attack on 157 Task Force Battalion in Metele, Guzamala Local Government Area, at about 6:00 p.m. They are very prepared with a lot of advanced ammunition. On Tuesday morning, the soldiers tried enough to evacuate corpses of the fallen soldiers, the Boko Haram fighters made every attempt to do this to be in vain.
How we were attacked
We were relaxing, until one of our soldiers on top of the observation post perceived the Boko Haram fighters advancing. we were all alerted and we all took cover and ready to fire. we waited within the base in Metele, the attack was very dangerous one, one of the soldiers said.
“The fight did not last for more than 45 minutes, but it was bloody because the Boko Haram fighters had more armament advantage than the soldiers”.
When we realized that the they will defeat us because their ammunition is more advanced than ours, we retreated, though they have killed many of us already.The camp was surrounded with barbed wire, and the enemy fire was coming from the direction of the entrance. We were like surrounded.
“One of the drivers of the gun trucks decided to push through the barbed wire so that other vehicles could follow and escape, but the truck got stuck, that was how many of our soldiers in other vehicles and those on foot were massacred.”
“Those that managed to escape with injuries made it on foot through Cross-Kauwa to Monguno where they boarded commercial vehicles, some even sat in the booth of the Golf cars to get to Maiduguri.
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